Just thought you should know...

Fruit-flavoured marshmallows are nasty.

What I read in a year...

I know, it's been a while since I posted... so, want to see what I read between last March and this?

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Spring 2007:


"Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life" by Alison Weir
"The Princes in the Tower" by Alison Weir
"The Wars of the Roses" By Alison Weir
"The Phantom of the Opera"By Gaston Leroux
"Queen Isabella" By Alison Weir
"The Children of Henry VIII" By Alison Weir
"Thomas Cardinal Wolsey" By Nancy Lenz Harvey
"Of Mice and Men" By John Steinbeck
"The Six Wives of Henry VIII" By Alison Weir
"The Sisters of Henry VIII" By Maria Perry
"Nine Days Queen" By Mary Luke
"The Poisonwood Bible" By Barbara Kingsolver
"The Wars of the Roses" By Desmond Seward
"The Wars of the Roses" By Robin Neillands
"Royal Blood: Richard III and the Mystery of the Princes" By Bertram Fields
"To Kill a Mockingbird" By Harper Lee
"Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Murder of Lord Darnley" By Alison Weir
"Elizabeth I: Collected Works" By Elizabeth I
"First Lady of the Confederacy: Varina Davis' Civil War" By Joan E. Cashin
"The Grapes of Wrath" By John Steinbeck
"Confederate Heroines: 120 Southern Women Convicted by Union Military Justice" By Thomas P. Lowry
"Women in the Field: America's Pioneering Women Naturalists" By Marcia Bonta

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Summer 2007:

"Titus Andronicus" By William Shakespeare
"Marie Antoinette: The Journey" By Antonia Fraser
"The Life of Elizabeth I" By Alison Weir
"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" By James Joyce
"King Henry VI Part I" By William Shakespeare
"Love's Labours Lost" By William Shakespeare
"The Comedy of Errors" By William Shakespeare
"The Sound and the Fury" By William Faulkner
"Two Gentlemen of Verona" By William Shakespeare
"Crime and Punishment" By Fyodor Dostoevsky
"King Henry VI Part II" By William Shakespeare
"The Stranger" By Albert Camus
"Henry VI Part III" By William Shakespeare
"King Richard III" By William Shakespeare
"Romeo and Juliet" By William Shakespeare
"King Richard II" By William Shakespeare
"King John" By William Shakespeare
"The Merchant of Venice" By William Shakespeare
"King Henry IV Part I" By William Shakespeare
"Great Expectations" By Charles Dickens
"Elizabeth of York" By Nancy Lenz Harvey
"Go Tell it on the Mountain" By James Baldwin
"Henry VIII: The King and His Court" By Alison Weir
"The Wars of the Roses" By William W. Lace
"Absalom! Absalom" By William Faulkner ***
"Henry Plantagenet" By Richard Barber
"The Last of the Plantagenets" By Thomas B. Costain

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Autumn 2007:

"A Tale of Two Cities" By Charles Dickens
"The Wars of the Roses" By Anthony Cheetham
"Innocent Traitor" By Alison Weir
"Macbeth" By William Shakespeare
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" By Washington Irving
"Julius Caesar" By William Shakespeare
"The Taming of the Shrew" By William Shakespeare
"The Young Elizabeth" By Alison Plowden
"Hard Times" By Charles Dickens
"A Midsummer Night's Dream" By William Shakespeare
"The Book of the Duchess" By Geoffrey Chaucer (Edited by Gerard NeCastro)
"The Boke of the Duchesse" By Geoffrey Chaucer
"Othello" By William Shakespeare
"Much Ado About Nothing" By William Shakespeare
"King Lear" By William Shakespeare
"The Tempest" By William Shakespeare
"Pride and Prejudice" By Jane Austen
"Cry the Beloved Country" By Alan Paton
"The Greatest Gift" By Philip Van Doren Stern

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Winter 2007-08

"Emma" By Jane Austen
"The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes" By H.G. Wells
"Complete Sonnets" By William Shakespeare
"Sense and Sensibility" By Jane Austen
"Persuasion" By Jane Austen
"Jane Eyre" By Charlotte Bronte
"Jurassic Park" By Michael Crichton
"Ivanhoe" By Sir Walter Scott
"Northanger Abbey" By Jane Austen
"The Lost World" By Michael Crichton
"All Quiet on the Western Front" By Erich Maria Remarque
"Jane Austen Juvenilia Volume I" By Jane Austen
"My Antonia" By Willa Cather
"Wuthering Heights" By Emily Bronte
"Anthem" By Ayn Rand
"Old Man and the Sea" By Ernest Hemingway

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As you can see, I really slowed down over Autumn and Winter. Autumn was IQF and I was working on my TOGC project, I also had three clocks-in-progress. Winter I was suffering from a severe case of earring-making mania. So sad. But I expect to pick up the pace this spring. ^_^

You Are 84% Intuitive

Your intuition is so spot on it's scary! You can learn a lot about people and situations, simply by listening to your gut. And you've even wondered if you can predict the future at times. Just be sure not to always listen to your intuition... someday it could be wrong!

How Intuitive Are You?

Returned from hiatus...

Actually, I wasn't really on hiatus until I realized how long it had been since I last updated my blog. : )
A belated Happy Valentines Day, everyone! Valentines Roses:

Look at the candy heart I got:

What is the world coming to?

Masterpiece: The Complete Jane Austen

Everyone is entitled to my opinion:

I missed Persuasion, but thought Northanger Abbey was rather poorly done. Mansfield Park was pretty good, but had some issues as well. Firstly, they don't follow the books very well, and several violations of the etiquette of that period arise. Under no circumstances would Mr. Tilney and Catherine Morland have kissed, neither would Edmund and Fanny... this would have been a great impropriety, very inappropriate. Also, Fanny would not have permitted Edmund to enter her bed-chamber, nor would Edmund have presumed to enter... much less when Fanny was washing her hair. Speaking of hair, did anyone else notice that her 'do' was not correct to the period? But everyone else was fine.

As for the drama, "Miss Austen Regrets", that was absolutely ridiculous. She was portrayed in a very undesirable light, in my personal opinion. I would also like to point out the extreme inaccuracy of the piece. Firstly, Mr. Brydges did not propose to Jane Austen, and never had any such relationship with her. This proposal-acceptance-refusal scenario took place instead with one Harris Bigg-Wither. Where Mr. Brydges comes into the story is Jane Austen's relationship with his wife's cousin's son (or something of the sort) Tom Lefroy. This relationship came to nothing. And, in respect to Mr. Hayden (the 'apothecary'), Jane Austen had no such interest in him, but instead had been encouraging a relationship between him and her niece, Fanny. And nowhere is there any evidence to indicate that her sister, Cassandra, discouraged her from accepting any proposal...

Please, no one think I'm being critical or a wet-blanket... this just really smoked my shorts! It just isn't right to portray someone so inaccurately, especially when evidence, history, records etc. point in an entirely different direction.

All that aside, Pride And Prejudice has been pretty good so far. : )

Altered Art Group Sea Challenge

I'm Admin for the Altered Art group on Flickr, we decided to begin doing a monthly challenge, and January's theme was Sea. Check out the entries in the slideshow:

Participants:

PaperBouquet (Me)
Bettysoo
Vintagepix
Decorating4
Playingwithbrushes
Peregrine blue
Heyjupiter21
aLiCia PeLLon
Gardencandymosaics
Lisa templ-cox
Flowerpistol
Crazyfish_666
Creationsinglass
Eclecticelements

A Place To Bark- Animal Rescue

Any of you who are in to Altered Art/Mix-Media Art are probably familiar with Bernie Berlin, author of "Artist Trading Card Workshop", and owner of "A Place To Bark", a no-kill animal rescue she runs in Tennessee. Please, for any of you who can make donations, she is trying to win a $50,000.00 dollar grant from the "American Giving Challenge" so she can build a shelter for her animals. Right now she holds the third place out of the top four, if she gets knocked into fourth she'll still be okay, but if she gets knocked into fifth, she won't get the grant. Words cannot describe how amazing her work has been. I wish I had read about this sooner, the contest ends tomorrow. There is very little time left!
Here's a link to her blog:

http://aplacetobark.blogspot.com/

To the "American Giving Challenge" page: http://www.sixdegrees.org/Top.aspx

To the donation page: http://tinyurl.com/3x3c3m